Elizabeth Warren ‘concerned’ about campaign

Elizabeth Warren says she is worried about her Senate campaign, which has become embroiled in a controversy surrounding her Native American heritage.

“Of course, I’m concerned,’’ Warren said in an interview with the Boston Globe Thursday. “I decided to run for the Senate because the middle class has been hammered and Washington doesn’t get it. I want to talk about Scott Brown’s voting record. He has worked hard to make this campaign about anything else, even my heritage, and he’s not spending time on what Massachusetts voters are concerned about.”

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The Democratic candidate had conceded for the first time this week that she herself informed Harvard that she was Native American — in contrast to her initial claim that she was unaware the school had listed her as a minority professor until recently. And she is acknowledging that the controversy surrounding her heritage is hurting her campaign.

But Warren, who is maintaining that she told Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania of her Native American status only after she was hired and that her minority status didn’t give her any advantages, was unable to answer the question of how she was listed as a Native American in 1992, when she was a visiting professor.

“I don’t know,” she said, when pressed by the Globe.

And asked why she said last month that she knew about Harvard listing her as a Native American only after the Boston Herald first broke the story, she responded, “I misunderstood the question.”

Still, Warren continued to argue that her Native American ancestry is an important part of her family history.

“My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope,” she told the Globe. “This was real in my life. I can’t deny my heritage. I can’t and I won’t. That would be denying who my mother was, who my family was, how we lived, and I won’t do it.’’

Pleading with supporters to help fight back Brown, the Warren camp circulated a letter Thursday in an attempt to quell concerns about the Native American controversy. Warren also went after her Republican opponent for suggesting that her parents hadn’t told her the truth about her background, firing back that her parents were “off limits.”

Meanwhile, things continued to heat up among Cherokees across the country who are unhappy with Warren’s handling of the heritage controversy.

This week, a group of some 150 members and descendants of three Cherokee tribes banded together to form the group “Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren,” and disgruntled Cherokees are planning to protest at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Springfield, Mass., on Saturday.

David Cornsilk, who co-founded “Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren” but says he won’t be at the protest, told POLITICO Friday that it’s an attempt to draw attention to Warren’s “developing pattern of dishonesty.”

“And we’re seeing probably the tip of the iceberg,” he said. “It’s important for America to see exactly who they’re electing. It doesn’t really matter if they’re Republican or Democrat. What matters is that she’s honest. And I’m seeing that she’s not.”

But Warren, who is maintaining that she only told Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania of her Native American status after she was hired and that her minority status didn’t give her any advantages, was unable to answer the question of how she was listed as a Native American in 1992, when she was a visiting professor.

“I don’t know,” she said, when pressed by the Globe.

And asked why she said last month that she only knew about Harvard listing her as a Native American after the Boston Herald first broke the story, she responded, “I misunderstood the question.”

Thats the crux of the matter -- Democrat Socialists do not view personal integrity as important -- they put higher values on "good intentions" and "empathy/emotions" -- characteristics of children, rather than thinking adults

If you tell a lie big enough, long enough, and often, there will be some that will believe it. However was it Lincoln who said " You can fool some of the people all of the time, all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

Oh, take heart, Elizabeth, you're a far-Left, Liberal Democrat, so integrity of character makes little difference to the people willing to vote for you.

After all, look at your neighbor in Connecticutt, Richard Blumenthal, he lied for years about service in Vietnam and had no trouble at all getting elected to the Senate......and he replaced Chris Dodd!

If it weren't for double-standards then Liberals would have no standards at all.

The controversy is about tea party people getting scared because they have a serious challenger who will actually stand up for working middle class, and try to fight to keep them from being hammered and exploited, so they're making an issue out of something that the other 99% of the state doesn't give a rat's *** about. So they're posting statements that are so far beyond idiocy they're not even worth responding to, except to say that it shows desperation. It has distracted Warren's campaign, but it hasn't shifted the polls one iota, nor will it, to the point where eventually they'll have to try and latch on to something else. But, alas, for now we'll have to grit our teeth and bear the (to borrow a quote from George Will) Bloviated ignoramus posts that are sure to follow this one. Ok tea party idiots, let the flaming of this post begin. knock yourselves out.

She is off her rocker. She wants the controversy to go away but she can't provide any proof that she may be 1/32 Indian. Its laughable. She is at least 31/32 white and got special priviledges and wonders what the fuss is about!

The lies and misrepresentations coming from the Kochs and Scott Brown are a lot like the swift boat campaign against John Kerry a few years ago. Just worse. The idea is to take someone's strength and find a way to distort it and use it against them. They'll never see it coming.

The following is an email I received yesterday from Elizabeth Warren and is why I continue to support her and why she will win in November. She's tougher and smarter than any of these right wing hacks we see posted on Politico.

Wendell,

When I was a little girl, I learned about my family's heritage the same way everyone else does -- from my parents and grandparents.

My mother, grandmother, and aunts were open about my family's Native American heritage, and I never had any reason to doubt them. What kid asks their grandparents for legal documentation to go along with their family stories? What kid asks their mother for proof in how she describes herself?

My heritage is a part of who I am -- and I am proud of it.

But that's not good enough for Scott Brown and the Republican Party. For several weeks now, they have orchestrated an attack against my family, my job qualifications, and my character. Earlier today, Scott Brown even questioned the honesty of my parents -- even though they are not fair game and are not here to defend themselves.

Scott Brown wants me to give up my family and forget where I came from. I'm not doing that -- not for politics and not for anything else. I'll hold on to every memory I can. My family is part of who I am, and they will be part of who I am until I die.

Despite evidence to the contrary, Scott Brown also claims I got special breaks because of my background. That's not true, and I need your help to fight back:

The people involved in recruiting and hiring me for my teaching jobs, including Harvard professor Charles Fried -- the solicitor-general under Ronald Reagan and a Scott Brown voter in 2010 -- have said unequivocally they were not aware of my heritage and that it played no role in my hiring. I did not benefit from my heritage when applying to college or law school, and documents reporters have examined prove it. I let people know about my Native American heritage in a national directory of law school personnel. At some point after they hired me, I also provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. I decided to run for the U.S. Senate because the middle class in this country has been hacked at and hammered at and because Washington doesn't get it.

Scott Brown has a very different vision about who we are as a people, and he votes to make sure the levers of power in Washington continue to work for the big, the powerful and the wealthy.

If everyone in Massachusetts knew where Scott Brown stands on the important issues, voters wouldn't give him a second term in the U.S. Senate. You know that, I know that, and he knows that, too.

That's why he has worked so hard to make this campaign about anything else -- even my heritage. It's why his campaign spends so little time on what Massachusetts voters are really concerned about.

On Election Day, we will prevail because our vision is clearer and our ideas are stronger. We are focused on the issues important to middle class families, and our grassroots team will make sure everyone knows about those issues. I need your help to keep fighting the smears, spread the truth, and help us organize to win.

That would be "denying how we lived" Maybe she has some childhood pictures of her sitting in the wig wamm by the babbling brook. I think she will be lucky to come out of this with her cushy tenured job. Just another crooked lefty scamming the system.